Beverly Aarons

by Beverly Aarons On view at ARTE NOIR Gallery until February 22, 2026, Black Clay  reclaims ceramic practice as an ontological intervention, restoring clay from a purely utilitarian object to a vessel of lifeforce, memory, and cosmological agency. Featuring pottery works from 25 Black ceramics artists, this exhibition situates contemporary ceramic practice within a deep lineage of African and African Diasporic worldviews that have understood clay as animated, relational, and historically...

Ed King, Executive Director of Pottery Northwest, is transforming the 59-year-old institution by confronting its history and rebuilding its business model to serve Black and Brown artists long excluded from the clay community—not just through messaging, but through operational and economic redesign.

Across The Diaspora is a non-linear, narrative-driven exhibition that centers the voices of African descendants in the Diaspora. Part ancestral memory, part fantastical future, the works of thirteen artists serve as cultural portals—resisting assimilation, reimagining tradition, and daring to dream surreal futures.